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The issue is that grub, the bootloader, doesn't know about windows and can't boot it. You can go into BIOS and change the boot order to boot windows without figuring this out as a stopgap.
I had to create /etc/default/grub as well on arch, so do that and rerun grub-mkconfig.
As usual, the arch wiki has a great but short guide on that: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Detecting_other_operating_systems Read the entire article to get an idea of how to work with grub, then follow the windows section exactly.
That's the problem not even the bios is reading windows after the EOS installation. I keep changing the order of things but when I boot from the other SSD it just says "checking media" and then "failed" and it gets looped over and over again.
But I can still see the windows drives and partitions from EOS... It's the weirdest ting that I've seen... Would you recommend just doing a clean install of everything in that case?
Sounds like there's something wrong with your windows EFI partition in that case.
I don't know how to fix that short of a reinstall. If you do reinstall, make sure to unplug (yes, that's actually neccessary) all drives except the one you want to install windows on, otherwise the installer is almost guaranteed to fiddle around with them despite you not selecting them.
Lmao the windows installer won't mess around with your other drives. Not even other partitions. I've reinstalled Windows 11 alongside Linux without issue. Other than having to reset the default efi image in the BIOS.
There are people who make backups and people who will.
It's the same thing with this: Even if it goes nicely most of the time, it'll eventually screw up everything and you'll be spending at least an hour figuring out what went wrong.